Mojo Magazine

FLEA: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ four-string dynamo on jazz, drugs, Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, his new solo album and more: “I knew music was something serious.”

TERRY HALL: Through The Colourfield and beyond: how the unique personality and quirky song-sense of The Specials’ singer survived trouble and trauma in the ’80s and ’90s.

BOB WEIR: The Grateful Dead’s driving spirit joins Jerry, Pigpen, Phil and co in the psychedelic jugband in the sky. Bandmates tell his story and salute his legacy.

COURTNEY BARNETT: She’s back, with a bag of top-notch songs and a rattlesnake anecdote, but the journey’s not been easy: “I didn’t know what I was doing or where I was going.”

PUNK 1976: Jon Savage revisits 10 Year Zero flashpoints with
the help of 10 evocative photos and vivid eyewitness testimony. “No one knew it but the world had changed.”

SEX PISTOLS
…Meanwhile, 50 years on, Jones, Cook and Matlock remember the tornado of 1976: “I said, You were bottling us! They said, ‘Well, we read that you like that.’”

THE HOLD STEADY: Twenty years since Boys And Girls In America, the band who were “Springsteen fronting The Damned” remember their Thin Lizzy/Jim Beam-fuelled coup.

MILES DAVIS: Not just the King Of Jazz, but an avatar of
aheadness in all cultural milieux, Davis would have been 100 this spring. The perfect moment to celebrate the beauty, daring and madness of his finest work.